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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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WARDICHTHYS. Geol. A platysomid fossil fish of the Lower Carboniferous period found in the Forth estuary (1875 R. H. Traquair in Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist. (Ser. 4) XV. 262).
[From Wardie, now part of Edinburgh.]
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